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This month Health Management Technology provides us with a rare sighting of actual BPOC error data.

Jim Douglas, R.N., clinical systems administrator at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, Mich, says that in 2006 alone, the hospital reduced medication errors by 5,744 and prevented 400 serious medical errors, including two that would most likely have been fatal. Since beginning the implementation of the Cerner Bridge Medication Administration point-of-care technology in 1998, more than 21,000 medication errors and a total of five fatalities have been avoided.

FYI - Jim Douglas will be presenting his data analysis techniques at the unSUMMIT this May. Catch his presentation, "Joint Commission Tracer Methodology and Medication Error Prevention." For more go to www.unsummit.com.

See the full text PDF:
http://pointofcareforum.com/toolbox/manic_for_medication_safety